We are a commune of inquiring, skeptical, politically centrist, capitalist, anglophile, traditionalist New England Yankee humans, humanoids, and animals with many interests beyond and above politics. Each of us has had a high-school education (or GED), but all had ADD so didn't pay attention very well, especially the dogs. Each one of us does "try my best to be just like I am," and none of us enjoys working for others, including for Maggie, from whom we receive neither a nickel nor a dime. Freedom from nags, cranks, government, do-gooders, control-freaks and idiots is all that we ask for.

Factors Delmy God! They "hand slice" their meat! Imagine what that adds to the flavor!

Atlanta's Building Boom- Simple answer, buy the property and you can do whatever you like with the trees. One day Atlanta will be the largest city in America since it's the only one with no physical restraints.

I've lived on the ocean all my life. There is no sea level rise evident anywhere. In most places, due to tides, moon phase, winds, etc, there is no such thing as 'sea level."

Those who push solar and wind power failed math in school. It isn't practical or sustainable and given the trends over the last 60 years or so it may never be practical. Just the simple fact that any large solar or wind installation requires a fossil fuel power generation facility on standby to supply power when the solar or wind facility fails is enough to explain the impracticality of wind and solar. But when you include the incredible costs of solar and wind in relation to it's generation capacity the case against solar and wind becomes a slam dunk. So why do we mandate it?

Two reasons: 1 Crony politics where someone makes a lot of money selling and installing these systems. 2. Politicians are reaping the benefit of a desire by the voters to have clean energy and Ignorance (a lack of scientific knowledge) of the cost and efficiency of these systems. This part of the problem is exactly why we have ethanol in our gasoline even though it causes more ecological harm.

It's smoothed by computing nonlinear trend lines, with an embedding period of 15 years, based on actual data. See Church & White, A 20th century acceleration in global sea‐level rise, Geophysical Research Letters 2006.

Jim: https://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/sltrends/sltrends.html

The charts in your link show an increase in global sea level as measured on coastlines, but it doesn't seem to have much to do with the historical graph shown above. How does the link contradict the historical graph?

In fact, as the NOAA empirical data show, sea level rise has been constant for at least the past 100 years. In most locations, the rise is about 5-6 inches per century. That is far from the 3-6 foot increases by 2100 the hystericals routinely predict, based on fake data. There is absolutely nothing to support this, other than "scientists' computer models" using cooked data and phony charts like yours. E.g., https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2016/03/30/antarctic-loss-could-double-expected-sea-level-rise-by-2100-scientists-say/?utm_term=.7086933411d0 Using actual NOAA data, a 3 foot rise will take something like 600 years to occur. Six feet, which is the usual figure being trotted out, will actually take 1200 years. I'm not going to worry about it, somehow I think we will find a way to get out of the way of increasing sea levels without too much trouble..

Jim: In fact, as the NOAA empirical data show, sea level rise has been constant for at least the past 100 years.

As already pointed out, Church and White found an acceleration in the rate of sea level rise based on tide gauges. A more recent study, using satellite altimetry, has confirmed the acceleration. See Nerem et al., Climate-change–driven accelerated sea-level rise detected in the altimeter era, PNAS 2018.

Re Socialism: Socialism takes a very high level of individual morals and altruism. It takes a very high level of individual effort, conscious choice and self-discipline. This is why socialism never works; humans are not naturally geared for that much voluntary moral effort. The personal self-interest (greed, if you will) in humans always looks at the easier "getting" side of socialism. But the real moral effort is on the "producing" side of the equation. Each person has to choose to maximize their production and choose to minimize their needs to make Group socialism work. Because humans are not naturally likely to produce without the motivation of rewards, Socialism defaults to Force as the motivation.

If Solar And Wind Are So Cheap, Why Are They Making Electricity So Expensive?
Solar electricity is inherently more expensive, as it concentrates a very diffuse energy source. Wind energy is more concentrated. Texas produces the most wind-powered electric energy in the country, with electricity costs lower than average. Residential Electricity Rates & Consumption in Texas.

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Residential electricity rates in Texas average 10.98¢/kWh, which ranks the state 31st in the nation.
The average residential electricity rate of 10.98¢/kWh in TX is 7.58% less than the national average residential rate of 11.88¢/kWh.
The approximate range of residential electricity rates in the U.S. is 8.37¢/kWh to 37.34¢/kWh.

The association highlighted a report from investment company Lazard saying that wind energy costs dropped 4 percent last year. That follows a cost decline of two-thirds between 2009 and 2016. That report also indicated wind was the cheapest energy option in some areas, even without its current tax credits.....
Wind generated 17.4 percent of Texas' electricity last year.

There is no point installing wind energy where there is little wind. However, the wind blows rather strong in the plains from Texas to Montana. If you have lemons, make lemonade.

The Texas Gold Coast around Corpus Christi is full of these things, too. Probably the best place in the world would be the trade winds belt in the lower lattitude, since the winds there blow easterly 99% of the time, and they are always moving.

Here's a neat time lapse of the world's biggest wind turbine being set into place offshore Scotland by a jackup crane ship. https://gcaptain.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9d589e63fba611f84640a8337&id=e62e7d316c&e=372124486d.

It's a shame these things chew up so many birds and are such maintenance hogs, but there it is. Since we seem to be finally entering the Age of Consequences, rabid eco-consumers should be made to sign a release that they are 'OK' with having electricity 75% of the time, just above where they sign up for 25% higher electricity rates.

Yeah... but... They still need millions and millions of taxpayer dollars just to put them in place. Then they never live up to the hype and begin losing money until they take them out. In fact the U.S. could save a fortune if they simply shut down all the solar and wind facilities and removed them. Think about that. They are losing millions a year on these things and we would actually save money to deinstall them

In fact the U.S. could save a fortune if they simply shut down all the solar and wind facilities and removed them. Think about that. Think about that.
Think about this, and I quote from previous comment.

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Lazard saying that wind energy costs dropped 4 percent last year. That follows a cost decline of two-thirds between 2009 and 2016.

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